American Review of Canadian Studies articles from December 2006

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from December 2006

From the editors.
December 22, 2006... Dear Colleagues: Slowly but surely, we are getting back on schedule with the journal. As we began the transition into our new office and our university's various systems, however, we realized that the timing was right for an updating of...

Quebec's "America problem": differential threat perception in the North American security community.
December 22, 2006... Does the Quebec of the early twenty-first century, by which I mean Quebec society and not necessarily the government of Quebec, have an "America problem"? Is it experiencing something akin to the "Canada problem" the United States was said, by...

Four pathways to Aboriginal self-government in Canada.
December 22, 2006... Abstract Recent decades have seen the rising of a vital, multifaceted politics in Canada, focused on the future relations between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state. While there are many debates about specific arrangements, there is...

American inspiration: the story of the Diefenbaker Centre's unlikely origins.
December 22, 2006... A common desire among many politicians is to leave a lasting legacy that ensconces their contributions firmly in the memories of a nation. Perhaps no Canadian leader understood the concept of commemoration better than the nation's thirteenth...

Voter dealignment or campaign effects? Accounting for political preferences in Ontario.
December 22, 2006... Elections in Canada are rarely subject to the delays in voting counts present in the United States. For Americans, the time required to count hundreds of millions of ballots has made exit polls an attractive option to political commentators...

Disenchanted modernity in Robert Kroetsch's The Studhorse Man: eugenics, contraception, and BioIntervention.
December 22, 2006... Citing Max Weber, the sociologist John MacInnes has described the twentieth-century condition as one of "rationalization" and "disenchantment," "the process whereby the responsibility for the fate of the world is accepted as a human rather than...

Book review essay.
December 22, 2006... R. Douglas Francis, Richard Jones, and Donald B. Smith. Origins: Canadian History to Confederation, 5th ed. Scarborough, ON: Nelson, 2004. xxi + 493 pp. $56.95 paper. R. Douglas Francis, Richard Jones, and Donald B. Smith. Destinies:...

Our Cannibals, Ourselves.
December 22, 2006... Priscilla L. Walton. Our Cannibals, Ourselves. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004. ix + 172 pp. $35.00 hardcover. There are many terms humanity has used over the years to label and demonize the "other"--witch, communist, alien,...

Up North: Where Canada's Architecture Meets the Land.
December 22, 2006... Lisa Rochon. Up North: Where Canada's Architecture Meets the Land. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2005. 304 pp. $40.00 cloth. Lisa Rochon has been architecture critic for the Globe and Mail for only five years, yet as this collection of her...

From the Atelier Tovar.
December 22, 2006... Guy Maddin. From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2003. 235 pp. $19.95 cloth. Why is Guy Maddin so sad? Could it be because he resides in Winnipeg, a city called the "capital of sadness" in his most recent...

My Mother Is an Alien: Ten Takes on Life and Film.
December 22, 2006... George Melnyk. My Mother Is an Alien: Ten Takes on Life and Film. Banff: The Banff Centre Press, 2004. iv + 144 pp. $18.95 cloth. In his book One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema, Melnyk identifies three different kinds of writers who take...

One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema.
December 22, 2006... George Melnyk. One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, 361 pp. $35.00 paper. George Melnyk's One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema is an ambitious and extremely detailed examination of not only the...

Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition.
December 22, 2006... Brett McGillivray. Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition, 2nd ed. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. 282 pages. $95.00 cloth. Regional geography, the analysis of a defined area's physical and human characteristics,...

Clio's Warriors: Historians and the Writing of the World Wars.
December 22, 2006... Tim Cook. Clio's Warriors: Historians and the Writing of the World Wars. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2006. ix + 326 pp. $85.00 cloth. $29.95 paper. It has not taken long for Tim Cook, a scholar at the Canadian War Museum, to...

Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-1945.
December 22, 2006... Peter Geller. Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-1945. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. 280 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.96 paper. The notion that Canada is synonymous with the North is an idea ingrained in the...

A Science on the Scale: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939.
December 22, 2006... Jennifer M. Hubbard. A Science on the Scale: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. x + 351 pp. $65.00 cloth. Canada's Atlantic fishery has long been a topic of historical...

The Order of Canada: Its Origins, History, and Development.
December 22, 2006... Christopher McCreery, The Order of Canada: Its Origins, History, and Development. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 350 pp., 61 color and black-and-white photographs. $65.00 cloth. Christopher McCreery, The Canadian Honours...

Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: Europe--Russia--Canada, 1525 to 1980.
December 22, 2006... James Urry. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: Europe--Russia--Canada, 1525 to 1980. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2006. xv + 400 pp. $27.95 paper. James Urry's new book is historical social anthropology at its best. It is...

The Canadian Federalist Experiment: From Defiant Monarchy to Reluctant Republic.
December 22, 2006... Frederick Vaughan. The Canadian Federalist Experiment: From Defiant Monarchy to Reluctant Republic. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. xii + 219 pp. $70.00 cloth. Contemporary scholarship is inclined to resist the...

The Admirals: Canada's Senior Leadership in the Twentieth Century.
December 22, 2006... Michael Whitby, Richard H. Gimblett, and Peter Haydon, eds., The Admirals: Canada's Senior Leadership in the Twentieth Century. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2006. 414 pp. $25.99 paper. The ten scholarly articles and six reminiscences by former...

Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court: Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund.
December 22, 2006... Christopher P Manfredi. Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court: Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. xx + 247 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. In this book, Christopher Manfredi,...

Shadows on the Rock.
December 22, 2006... Willa Cather. Shadows on the Rock. Historical essay and explanatory notes by John J. Murphy and David Stouck. Textual editing by Frederick M. Link. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xii + 682 pp. $75.00 cloth. In the fall of...

As for Sinclair Ross.
December 22, 2006... David F. Stouck. As for Sinclair Ross. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xv + 353 pp. $45.00 cloth. Sinclair Ross's novel As for Me and My House had an enormous influence on developments in 20th-century Canadian letters, from...

The Development of Political Thought in Canada.
December 22, 2006... Katherine Fierlbeck, ed., The Development of Political Thought in Canada. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005. viii + 324 pp. $39.95 paper. Appropriately enough, Katherine Fierlbeck begins the preface to this anthology with a lament that...

Governing Ourselves? The Politics of Canadian Communities.
December 22, 2006... Mary Louise McAllister. Governing Ourselves? The Politics of Canadian Communities. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. $85.00 cloth, $39.95 paper. It's refreshing to see an author take some chances and write a book that doesn't fit the usual mold....

Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990.
December 22, 2006... John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David W. Smith, and Randy William Widdis. Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. vii + 298 pp. $34.95 cloth. Permeable...

The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands.
December 22, 2006... Sheila McManus. The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xxiii + 236 pp. $69.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. Civilization, Oliver Wendell...

Books received.
December 22, 2006... Bell, John. Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2006. 192 pp. $40.00 cloth. Bratt, Duane. The Politics of CANDU Exports. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 336 pp. $60.00...